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Fresh Tomato Sandwiches: It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This!

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August 09, 2018, 03:14 PM
PASig
Fresh Tomato Sandwiches: It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This!
Today for lunch:

2 nice big tomato sandwiches

-Nice fresh sandwich bread
-Duke's Mayo
-1/2 inch thick sliced dead-ripe tomatoes from my Dad's garden
-Kosher salt
-Ground black pepper

That's IT. They were AMAZING! I love a nice simple tomato sandwich in the summertime.


August 09, 2018, 03:18 PM
HRK
No Bacon?



August 09, 2018, 03:20 PM
tatortodd
quote:
It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This!
Psst....there is this amazing meat called bacon that pairs very well with Duke’s, lettuce, and fresh maters.



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August 09, 2018, 03:20 PM
PASig
quote:
Originally posted by HRK:
No Bacon?


Not this time around. You don't want any cheese or bacon or anything else to hide the tomato flavor.


August 09, 2018, 03:27 PM
HRK
I was thinking the other way round..

don't want those mater's messing up my bacon... Big Grin

They do sound good though



August 09, 2018, 03:30 PM
Jim Shugart
I agree with PASig. BLT's are great, but you've gotta have a plain mater sammich every now and then.



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August 09, 2018, 03:30 PM
RogueJSK
You suck at cooking. You forgot to toast the bread.

Watch and learn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxE_wEbkcXM

(It's pretty funny... Wink )


August 09, 2018, 03:35 PM
TigerDore
quote:
Originally posted by PASig:
quote:
Originally posted by HRK:
No Bacon?


Not this time around. You don't want any cheese or bacon or anything else to hide the tomato flavor.

Yep, no need to mess with red, garden fresh tomatoes.

I had no idea that Duke's had made it north of the Mason-Dixon line.



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August 09, 2018, 03:38 PM
Jim Shugart
Very funny, Rogue. Big Grin

PASig has got it right.
- good sandwich bread - untoasted
- a perfectly ripe local tomato
- Duke's mayo (It's made here in Richmond.)
- Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper.



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August 09, 2018, 03:38 PM
JALLEN
I dunno. While I love chilled sliced tomato by itself, this morning I breakfasted on bagels with bacon-scallion cream cheese, topped by a slice of tomato and a slice of bacon. The bacon and cream cheese draw out the flavor of the tomato, and the roughage of the tomato is complimented by the smoothage of the bacon. Awfully pleasant!




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August 09, 2018, 03:42 PM
tatortodd
quote:
Originally posted by TigerDore:
Yep, no need to mess with red, garden fresh tomatoes.
As a tomato gardener, one of my favorite ways to enjoy my vine ripened tomatoes is eating like an apple but shaking a dash of salt every bite.



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August 09, 2018, 03:57 PM
doublesharp
Life has improved here in the Louisville area of the Ohio River Valley recently. We had a new Kroger superstore open nearby and they carry Duke's mayo. I used to have to smuggle it over the border.

10-4 on the mater sammich just like PASig makes em.


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August 09, 2018, 04:26 PM
RichardC
Mater sammich's have maximal enjoyment value between the hours of 12:30 - 5:00 a.m., when all normal people are sleeping.


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August 09, 2018, 04:27 PM
Jimbo54
quote:
Originally posted by tatortodd:
quote:
Originally posted by TigerDore:
Yep, no need to mess with red, garden fresh tomatoes.
As a tomato gardener, one of my favorite ways to enjoy my vine ripened tomatoes is eating like an apple but shaking a dash of salt every bite.


Now, that's how it's done. Our maters are just now coming on and I'll be going out to the garden with a salt shaker and eating one a day right there in the garden.

A little bit of heaven on earth.

Jim


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August 09, 2018, 04:28 PM
bald1
Well dayum. Its hot here and a lettuce 'n tomato sandwich might just be the ticket for supper. Have some smoked ham I can add too and maybe some extra sharp cheddar. Add a couple beefy lightly salted scallions on the side. Big Grin Too hot to heat up the kitchen frying up some bacon. Any way ya cut it the thick sliced tomatoes are da bomb!



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August 09, 2018, 04:30 PM
JALLEN
quote:
Originally posted by RichardC:
Mater sammich's have maximal enjoyment value between the hours of 12:30 - 5:00 a.m., when all normal people are sleeping.


Wait! I thought nothing good happened after midnight.




Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.

When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown
August 09, 2018, 05:11 PM
wreckdiver
I like my mater sandwiches toasted, Hellman's mayo, with liberal doses of salt and pepper.


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August 09, 2018, 05:11 PM
TigerDore
quote:
Originally posted by tatortodd:
As a tomato gardener, one of my favorite ways to enjoy my vine ripened tomatoes is eating like an apple but shaking a dash of salt every bite.

That sounds like a winner. I am going to have to try that.



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August 09, 2018, 05:14 PM
Mars_Attacks
Been eating 'mater sammiches all week!


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August 09, 2018, 05:30 PM
Minnow
quote:
Originally posted by PASig:
Today for lunch:

2 nice big tomato sandwiches

-Nice fresh sandwich bread
-Duke's Mayo
-1/2 inch thick sliced dead-ripe tomatoes from my Dad's garden
-Kosher salt
-Ground black pepper

That's IT. They were AMAZING! I love a nice simple tomato sandwich in the summertime.


^^^^^^^^^ This is what summer is about! Watching those tomato seedlings sprawl into beautiful plants loaded with juicy red deliciousness cannot be beat. When it’s time to enjoy them, PASig has it nailed! Now I think I will go pick one and verify what he is talking about.




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